Inner Gifts and Lordship of Spirit

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville's ear, this passage asks you to see that gifts are not tokens you display, but states of consciousness you enter. The Gentiles, bound by the dumb idols of fear and limitation, have wandered from the I AM into images that pretend to rule. When Paul says that no one can call Jesus accursed by the Spirit, he is declaring that the recognition of Jesus as Lord arises from an inner alignment, not from dogma. The Spirit is the awakening of your I AM within, and the gifts are the natural language of that awakened state: love, power, discernment, faith, and steadfast action. If you find yourself alarmed by appearances or worshiping external forms, you are still under the sway of idols; but if you affirm 'Jesus is Lord' as the certainty of your own being, you let the Holy Ghost operate in you. The inner shift makes the outer fruit; the only power you need is the awareness that you are the I AM, and from that fact all true gifts spring.